August 30, 1975: the day fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan is glimpsed
fleeing through the woods, never to be heard from again; the day
Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence.

Thirty-three
years later, Marcus Goldman, a successful young novelist, visits
Somerset to see his mentor, Harry Quebert, one of the country’s most
respected writers, and to find a cure for his writer’s block as his
publisher’s deadline looms. But Marcus’s plans are violently upended
when Harry is suddenly and sensationally implicated in the cold-case
murder of Nola Kellergan—whom, he admits, he had an affair with. As the
national media convicts Harry, Marcus launches his own investigation,
following a trail of clues through his mentor’s books, the backwoods and
isolated beaches of New Hampshire, and the hidden history of Somerset’s
citizens and the man they hold most dear. To save Harry, his own
writing career, and eventually even himself, Marcus must answer three
questions, all of which are mysteriously connected: Who killed Nola
Kellergan? What happened one misty morning in Somerset in the summer of
1975? And how do you write a book to save someone’s life?

A
chart-topping worldwide phenomenon, with sales approaching a million
copies in France alone and rights sold in more than thirty countries, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair is a fast-paced, tightly plotted, cinematic literary thriller, and an ingenious book within a book, by a dazzling young writer.